I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.