Do not expect justice where might is right.

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

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.