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.'

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.

Authority is no source for Truth.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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