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

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.