The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.