This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. |
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. |
This I know - that I know nothing. |
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. |
Those who seek power are not worthy of that power. |
Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range |
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay |
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. |
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. |
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege |
Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers |
Truth is its own reward. |