There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'