Plato was a bore.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.