The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!