"It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke."

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

"This is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.,."

"The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself."