Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Friends should have all things in common.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.