Virtue is nothing else than right reason

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

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

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.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.