It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.