The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"