Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.