We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.