In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.