To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.