It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

All men by nature desire knowledge.