More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers