Falsehoods border on truths.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.