Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

People generally despise where they flatter.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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.'