Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.