Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.