“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”

“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny”

“Well, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.”

“Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.”

“I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can... And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same... I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”

“An unconsidered life is not one worth living.”