Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.