And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

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

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.