Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.