Everything changes and nothing remains still.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.