For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

The good is the beautiful.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Pleasure is the bait of sin