The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

Truth is its own reward.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.