When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.