Truth is its own reward.

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

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Philosophy begins in wonder.