It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.