Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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.