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

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.