"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."

"Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?"

"Is there a perfect world?"

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."

"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."

"How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem."

"This is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.,."

"Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness."

"Any peace is better than any war."

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help and what they cannot."

"Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others."

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

"What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?"