At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Life must be lived as play.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.