It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.