How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

A promise made must be a promise kept.

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