Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

Any peace is better than any war

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.