Love: a grave mental disease.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.