For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.