How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

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.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.