Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

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.

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

Everybody grows in their own way.