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

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.