You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.