Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

The best things are placed between extremes.

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.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.