The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.