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

And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.