Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
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.
The warm love has the coldest end.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .