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?

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.