When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.