The Death of Socrates (1787), Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Know thyself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka aret�) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and
live.