To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Character is simply habit long continued.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.