Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.