You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.