Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.