Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?