"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."

"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Never discourage anyone. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

"The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know."

"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."

"Philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life."

"Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."