A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.