All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
Even the gods love jokes.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.