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.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.