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.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.