To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

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.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

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

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.