Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?