At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
...for anyone with any sense, a small number of intelligent people are more alarming than a crowd of unintelligent ones.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
The pursuit of money should come last in the scale of value.