You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

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

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.