As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.