That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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