I have good hope that there is something after death.

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.