You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.