Quotes

Every soul is immortal.

Until philosophers become kings in their cities, or those now called kings and rulers truly become philosophers, cities will have no rest from their evils.

Justice is a good to be valued not only for its rewards and results but also for its own sake.

Injustice brings discord into a man’s soul, while justice establishes order and harmony in it.

The just man sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and at peace with himself.

Justice is doing one’s own business and not being a busybody.

The fear of death is nothing other than the pretence of wisdom, for it is to think one knows what one does not know.

One should never return wrong for wrong, nor do evil to anyone, whatever evil one may have suffered.

It seems I am wiser than this man in this: although neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know, do not think I know either.

It is not enough to possess virtue; one must put it to use.

Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit.

Friendship seems to lie in loving rather than in being loved.