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

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"In Timaeus, Plato quipped that men who were cowardly and unjust in this life would certainly come back as women in the next."