The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.