The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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.