Writing is the geometry of the soul.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.