If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.