The measure of a man is what he does with power.
From Plato
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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