 It is right to give every man his due. |
| Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. |
| Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. |
| Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. |
| The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. |
| Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. |
| Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. |
| If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. |
| Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. |
| Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. |
| Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. |
| Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. |
| Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. |
| The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. |
| Love is a serious mental disease. |
| I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. |
| Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. |
| For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. |
| At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. |
| Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. |
