The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Love is a serious mental disease.
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
There is truth in wine and children.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Those who tell the stories rule society.
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
Character is simply habit long continued.
You’re my Star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
Love is the pursuit of the whole.