Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

People generally despise where they flatter.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.