We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.