HERE'S TO THE PURSUIT OF KNOWING OURSELVES AND LIVING WITH ARETE.
Wealth does not bring about excellence but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings to man.
Socrates; Apology.
It's the greatest good for man to discover virtue everyday for the unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates; Apology.
It's not difficult to avoid death, it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness for it runs faster than death.
Socrates; Apology.
There's a great distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned and that is the distinction of man into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinction of nature; good and bad are the distinction of heaven. But how a race of man came into the world so exalted above the rest and distinguished like some new species is worth inquiring into whether they are the means of happiness or misery to mankind.
Common Sense; Thomas Paine, 1776.