Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.