Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.