He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

No one ever dies an atheist.