Books are immortal sons deifying their sires |
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. |
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. |
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not |
Courage is a kind of salvation. |
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. |
Courage is knowing what not to fear. |
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. |
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. |
Democracy passes into despotism. |
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike |
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. |
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. |
Even the gods love jokes |
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. |