There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
The wisest have the most authority.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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.