The life that is unexamined is not worth living. What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. We are twice armed if we fight with faith. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers. Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. He was a wise man who invented God.