Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.