God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers