The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.