Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.