In an honest man there is always something of a child.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.