Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
The proud man is forsaken of God.