People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.