Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.