The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates speaks the line to the jury at his trial in 399 BC, after he has been found guilty. He says that discussing virtue daily is the greatest good a person can do, and that the jury is unlikely to believe him.
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
Now the worst part of the punishment is that he who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.