When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.