Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone….

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows..

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds..

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were….

Justice is having and doing what is one's own..

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites..

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will re….

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul..

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by y….

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety..

Courage is a kind of salvation..

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly..

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable..

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly..

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit r….

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and….

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit..

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the ….