In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.