Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule..

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power..

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds a….

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times..

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure..

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is n….

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul..

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity..

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing..

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue..

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools..

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost i….

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder..

Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal..

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you..

Music is to the mind as air is to the body..

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of….

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement..

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing ….

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea w….