"Any peace is better than any war."

"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."

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

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."

"A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul."

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

"A freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"There is, in my view, the birth of society that each of us, far from being sufficient to itself, on the contrary need a large number of people."

"He whom love touches not walks in darkness."

"It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light."

"I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself."

"I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger."

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."

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

"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funneled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews are cut.,."

"Isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?"

"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."

"Is there a perfect world?"

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

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things."