Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Philosophy is the highest music.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

Man is a being in search of meaning.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.