To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.