Your dog is your only philosopher.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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?

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.