Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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.