They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

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

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.