No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.