The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Perception starts with the eye.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.