Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
The examined life is the only life worth living.
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.