All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .