Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.