To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love