Even the gods love jokes.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year