Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.