To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.