Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.