Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.