Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men..

I shall assume that your silence gives consent..

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom..

The good is the beautiful..

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery..

There is no harm in repeating a good thing..

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master..

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails..

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good..

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death..

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases..

Science is nothing but perception..

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time..

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging rea….

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink..

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and ….

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but th….

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the….

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with t….

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean ….

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a s….