From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.