"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

"It is best to live however one can be."

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune."

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds."

"For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things."

"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing."

"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"Despair often breeds disease."

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly."

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

"Even a poor man can receive honors."

"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Evil gains work their punishment."

"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness."

"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."

"A human being is only breath and shadow."

"A state is not a state if it belongs to one man."

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick."

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"

"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do."

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always."

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."

"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

"A fearful man is always hearing things."

"No honest man will argue on every side"

"It is God's giving if we laugh or weep"

"It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good"