When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.