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.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

You should never think without an image.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.