"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income"
"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"
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself"
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them"
"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure"
"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment"
"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter"
"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do"
"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other"
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue"
"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern"
"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good"
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed"
"The beginning is the most important part of the work"
"One man cannot practice many arts with success"
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden"
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind"
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases"
"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself"
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men"
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so"
"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery"
"The measure of a man is what he does with power"
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector"
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself"
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half"
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education"
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way"
"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils"
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others"
"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety"
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom"
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous"
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others"
"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions"
"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions"
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories"
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life"
"I would fain grow old learning many things"
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune"
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods"
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"
"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not"
"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn"
"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice"
"Necessity... the mother of invention"
"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"
