Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.