Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Adventure is worthwhile.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.