There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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.
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
I know that I know nothing
Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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 god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.