A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Our need will be the real creator.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.