“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.”
“This and no other is the root fromwhich a tyrant springs; when hefirst appears he is a protector.”
“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”