If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.