I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.