If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle..

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.

I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conver….

The life which is not examined is not worth living..

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on ….

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return..

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant..

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rat….

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other….

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible..

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves..

...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that ….

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of….

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls..

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back..

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but o….

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be..

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced ….

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless..