The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.