For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.