It is impossible to conceive of many without one..

Love is a severe mental disorder..

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul..

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent..

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness..

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect..

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods..

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those ….

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants..

Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he ….

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of t….

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude..

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when th….

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge..

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is belov….

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know..

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the nec….

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires..

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods..