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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

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.

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.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the eyes, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul.

You should not honor men more than truth.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body.

Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body.

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

Everyone seeks his half

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul.

Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Beauty is the splendor of truth.