We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.