The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.