The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?