Love is a severe mental disorder.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?