Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
Science is nothing but perception.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.