YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure