Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.