God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

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