That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.