But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

...the Gods too love a joke.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.