Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

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