No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.