Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Life should be lived as play.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.