Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.