The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.