Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.