Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.