"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the..." - Quote by Plato

“This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.”

“The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.”

“A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.”

“If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.”

“It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”

“They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.”

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”

“Music is a defining element of character.”