"Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,."

"Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have."

"Without any one teaching him he will recover his knowledge for himself, if he is only asked questions."

"The thing to be done does not choose, I imagine, to tarry the leisure of the doer, but the doer must be at the beck of the thing to be done, and not treat it as a secondary affair."

"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done."

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

"The helpful is beautiful; only the harmful is ugly."