Courage is knowing what to fear.
Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.