Quotes

Are you not ashamed that you care for wealth, reputation and honour, but do not care for wisdom, truth and your own soul?

Justice is a good to be valued not only for its rewards and results but also for its own sake.

The fear of death is nothing other than the pretence of wisdom, for it is to think one knows what one does not know.

One should never return wrong for wrong, nor do evil to anyone, whatever evil one may have suffered.

It seems I am wiser than this man in this: although neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know, do not think I know either.

It is not enough to possess virtue; one must put it to use.

Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit.

One must be a sea to be able to receive a polluted stream without becoming unclean.

The most common lie is the one with which a man deceives himself.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

A reasonable and just man begins with himself first: he examines and considers himself, judges and condemns himself, and does not forgive himself where he is in the wrong.

A sensible man is ashamed to meddle in what he is not skilled in, while a senseless one thinks it a great shame if he does not poke his nose in everywhere.