"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

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

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

"That's what education should be ... the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

"Everyone seeks his half."

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

"He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity."

"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."

"Is there a perfect world?"

"Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors."

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

"Love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."

"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."

"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper, often only a spark, to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer, have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity, its poets, seers, and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark."

"Will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?"

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

"Certainly we shall have to look to ourselves, and try to find someone who will help in some way or other to improve us."

"The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and hope..."