The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.