Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.