By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.