Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

You should not honor men more than truth.