The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.