In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

I have trust issues.”“I know. I’m on a mission to cure you of that.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.