It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.