No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.