Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .