...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

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.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.