The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.