"The more the pleasures of the body..." - Quote by Plato

“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”

“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”

“States will never be happy untilrulers become philosophers orphilosophers become rulers.”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.”

“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”

“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

“Novelties please less than they impress.”

“I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”

“I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.”