Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Change in all things is sweet.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Nature does nothing in vain.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.