The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

The god is the beautiful.

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

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