Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.