Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

　　Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

　　By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll benete happy; if you get a bad one, you'll benete a philosopher.

　　False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

　　I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

　　I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

　　If all misfortunes were laid in one netmon heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

　　A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

　　All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and spanine.