You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Philosophy is the highest music.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.