The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.