Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths