Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.