Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

All men are alike when asleep.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education