Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

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

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.