“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

There is truth in wine and children.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.

Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.