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.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.