He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.