I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.