Those who tell the stories rule society.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

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

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

You should not honor men more than truth.