When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.