"Most men in power become villains."

"If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes."

"The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too."

"I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it."

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

"I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself."

"A person's desires force him to something to reason and he berates himself and gets indignant with the part that forces him, and his spirit allies with reason as though reason and desire were at civil war."

"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise."

"I have good hope that there is something after death."

"Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?"

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

"What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?"

"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."

"Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it, but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them."

"It seems to me that many fall into it even against their will, and fancy they are discussing, when they are merely debating, because they cannot distinguish the meanings of a term, in their investigation of any question, but carry on their opposition to what is stated, by attacking the mere words, employing the art of debate, and not that of philosophical discussion."

"No knowledge considers or prescribes for the advantage of the stronger, but for that of the weaker, which it rules."

"A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further."

"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended."

"Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul."

"You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?"