When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.