The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Science is nothing but perception.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom