"I prefer nothing, unless it is true."

"Without any one teaching him he will recover his knowledge for himself, if he is only asked questions."

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

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.,."

"At the touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet."

"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 desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."