Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.