The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.