Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.