The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.