Philosophy is the highest music.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.