Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

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

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

All thinking begins with wondering