Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.