The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

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?

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

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