The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

The wisest have the most authority.