And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

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

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.