Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.