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Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.

When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laertius Diogenes,