"Justice, although it resembles a mirage, is really concerned with internal rather than external activity, with the true self and its business."

"Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting."

"It is by justice, that we can authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man."

"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."

"The body is the tomb of the soul."

"Most men in power become villains."

"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.,."

"Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another."

"The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector."

"A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbor."