Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

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

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.