One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

A work well begun is half-ended.

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.