Wisdom of today.

"A state will be happy, where philosophers are kings, and kings philosophers." - Plato


"A real master is recognized, not by the amount of slaves he posseses, but by the amount of masters he taught." - Plato

"Many are called, but few are chosen." - Plato

“Unless, said I, either philosophers become kings in our states or those whom we now call our kings and rulers take to the pursuit of philosophy seriously and adequately, and there is a conjunction of these two things, political power and philosophic intellgence, while the motley horde of the natures who at present pursue either apart from the other are compulsory excluded, there can be no cessation of troubles, dear Glaucon, for our states, nor, I fancy, for the human race either. (473d-e)”

― Plato, The Republic