The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.