Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.