"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."

"ἐν ὀργῇ μήτε τι λέγειν μήτε πράσσειν"

"I was Euphorbus at the siege of Troy."

"Reason is immortal, all else mortal."

"Attempt nothing above thy strength!"

"Be not hasty to speak; nor slow to hear!"

"ἀλλήλοις θ᾽ ὁμιλεῖν, ὡς τοὺς μὲν φίλους ἐχθροὺς μὴ ποιῆσαι, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐχθροὺς φίλους ἐργάσασθαι. ἴδιόν τε μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι."

"By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse."

"Τὴν δ' ἀνθρώπου ψυχὴν διῃρῆσθαι τριχῆ, εἴς τε νοῦν καὶ φρένας καὶ θυμόν. νοῦν μὲν οὖν καὶ θυμὸν εἶναι καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλ…"

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil."