Life should be lived as play.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?