The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

...the Gods too love a joke.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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