Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

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.

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.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.