A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
Love is a grave mental illness.
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
As the government is, such will be the man.
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'