Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.