And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Pleasure is the bait of sin