The warm love has the coldest end.

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.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

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