For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.