To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with