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

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

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.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.