"The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity."

"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 point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

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

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

"The useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base."

"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."

"Now actions vary according to the manner of their performance. Take, for example, that which we are now doing, drinking, singing and talking these actions are not in themselves either good or evil, but they turn out in this or that way according to the mode of performing them; and when well done they are good, and when wrongly done they are evil; and in like manner not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise."

"I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense."