It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.