There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.