Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.