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

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.