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.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.