No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.