But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

The wisest have the most authority.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.