Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato Quotes
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.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
He did not wish to be believed to be the best but to be it.
The wisest have the most authority.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
