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.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.