If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.