The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.