Worms are the intestines of the earth.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized ends.
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
There is honor in being a dog.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future.
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn’t recognize her with her mouth closed.
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
To love someone is to identify with them.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.