Geometry existed before creation.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.