That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.