All men, well interrogated, answer well.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.