The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.