And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

It is right to give every man his due.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

There is truth in wine and children