The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

Ideas are the source of all things

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.