Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

No one ever dies an atheist.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.