Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty..

Cruel is the strife of brothers..

It is no easy task to be good..

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and d….

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; ….

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it wi….

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything..

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their….

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first prin….

Art takes nature as its model..

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolut….

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like h….

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambit….

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead..

Adventure is worthwhile..

You should never think without an image..

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses..

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature..

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . ..

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again..