The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.