Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.