But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.