"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,."

"At the touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet."

"A person's desires force him to something to reason and he berates himself and gets indignant with the part that forces him, and his spirit allies with reason as though reason and desire were at civil war."

"The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

"The desire for sex turns the penis into a disobedient thing with a mind of its own. Like an animal that will not listen .it tries to take complete control."

"The wisest have the most authority."

"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

"Yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."

"Life is a short exile."

"I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it."

"Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been."

"They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants, and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice, it is a mean or compromise."

"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."

"When the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? Is not that the inference?"

"If a man says that it is right to give everyone his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."