Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.