No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man..

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul..

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange..

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spir….

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned..

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God..

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split the….

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice..

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen..

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be ac….

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have t….

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom ….

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior ….

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of t….

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor bea….

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattracti….

[The Cretans have] more wit than words..

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the excl….

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place..

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed..