And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.