Laws are not made for the good.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.