Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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

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.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.