And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.