No soul willfully does wrong.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.