A friend is another I.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.