He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

...the Gods too love a joke.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.