Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.