May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.