My government you can be assured will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions...
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Then not only an old man but also a drunkard becomes a second time a child.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Science is nothing but perception.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much but...
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till...
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end...
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...
Philosophy is the highest music.
States are as the men they grow out of human characters.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of...
When men speak ill of thee live so as nobody may believe them.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers...
A hero is born among a hundred a wise man is found among a thousand but an...
Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to...
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...
Love is a serious mental disease.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
It is a common saying and in everybody's mouth that life is but a sojourn.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of...
Life must be lived as play.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it...
I would fain grow old learning many things.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
