In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.