How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Wise men speak because they have something to say