Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

The warm love has the coldest end.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

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

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.