Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
There is nothing more practical than a good theory.