No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

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

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.