Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.