Love is a serious mental disease.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.