When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.