Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Love is a serious mental disease.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Science is nothing but perception.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

It is right to give every man his due.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.