Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.