A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies..

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing..

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions..

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency….

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public educa….

A true friend is one soul in two bodies..

All things are full of gods..

Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from ….

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other..

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail..

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies..

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and mor….

Happiness is a sort of action..

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in gove….

Teaching is the highest form of understanding..

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (….

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth..

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet..

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice..