"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."

"Light is the shadow of god."

"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."

"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."

"No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself."

"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."

"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."

"For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man."

"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."

"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

"Knowledge is true opinion."

"Necessity... the mother of invention."

"Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies."

"I know that I know nothing."

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"It is right to give every man his due."

"You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!"

"Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."

"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."

"The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity."

"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I " equally ignorant " do not believe [that I know anything]."

"A life without investigation is not worth living."

"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."

"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."

"Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them."

"Time is the moving image of eternity."

"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"Justice is useful when money is useless."

"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."

"There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult."

"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."