The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Well begun is half done.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.