Any peace is better than any war

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

You can't do good if you don't feel good.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.