What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it