Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.