The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.