The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.