For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.