I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Be true to thine own self.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.