[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.