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

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.