No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

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

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?