Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

But few prize honour more than money.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.