"The soul can have no escape of security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training..."

"Those who render no service either by word or deed, who cannot help army or city or the people itself in time of need, ought to be stopped, even if they have riches in abundance, above all if they are…"

"For fear of death is indeed nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know."

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

"Why should we pay so much attention to what 'most people' think?"