"He who on conviction does and pursues and chooses what is pleasant would be thought to be better than one who does so…"

"Then let him enjoy much good in this world, that he may not behold the abiding-place of the Lord in the world to come."

"Be not content with your high station, for worldly honors are but for a time."

"Has it ever occurred to you, Euthydemus, ... that though pleasure is the one and only goal to which incontinence is t…"

"It is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle …"

"Bodily pleasure is unworthy of man’s superior endowments, and ought to be despised and spurned; and if there be any o…"

"All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were …"

"You have given yourself up to each of [the senses] to be made use of… and you have become… the property of [the sense…"

"Moses … denied to the members of the sacred commonwealth unrestricted liberty to use and partake of the other kinds o…"

"The ungodly ... reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,... we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we shall be a…"