No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

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

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.