I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

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