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.

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

God ever geometrizes.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.