For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.