Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

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

Laws are not made for the good.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.