It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?