The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.