Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
One has no friend who has many friends.
The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
We work to earn our leisure.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
Happiness is self-connectedness.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
A promise made must be a promise kept.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.