For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.