Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.