The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing