.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.