The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

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