Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

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

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.