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.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Man was not made for himself alone