Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.