Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.