"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
"By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence."
"Character is simply habit long continued."
"Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends."
"When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil."
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
"No knowledge considers or prescribes for the advantage of the stronger, but for that of the weaker, which it rules."
"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."