Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all