Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

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.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.