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

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.