To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.