Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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.