If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

Democracy passes into despotism.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.