Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.