Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.