To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.