Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.