Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.