"You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are …"

"It is not poverty that is feared, but the opinion about poverty."

"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? It is the same as that of a vine: leaves, then a blossom, then a ripe cluster. So here, first an appearance, then an impulse, then an act. And the fruit is…"

"Every man's life is a warfare, and that long and various."

"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will."