Laws (dialogue)

The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.

— Laws (dialogue)

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

— Laws (dialogue)

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

— Laws (dialogue)

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

— Laws (dialogue)

Now death is not the worst that can happen to men; far worse are the punishments which are said to pursue them in the world below.

— Laws (dialogue)