Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.