A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.