"Most men in power become villains."

"If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes."

"The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too."

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

"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 soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise."

"I have good hope that there is something after death."

"Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?"

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."