Democracy passes into despotism.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.