The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

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

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

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

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.