Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.