Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.