The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.