"We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know;— that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power."
"I prefer nothing, unless it is true."
"Without any one teaching him he will recover his knowledge for himself, if he is only asked questions."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
"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.,."
"At the touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet."
"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 desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few."
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."
"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
"The desire for sex turns the penis into a disobedient thing with a mind of its own. Like an animal that will not listen .it tries to take complete control."
"The wisest have the most authority."
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."
"Yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."
"Life is a short exile."
"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."
