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

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

Love is a severe mental disorder.