Life should be lived as play.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.