All is flux, nothing stays still
Ideas are the source of all things
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smoot...
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.
Love - a grave mental disease.