The good is the beautiful.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

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

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.