We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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.