Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.