The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.