A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.