"Once I was with the poet Sophocles when someone asked: 'How's your sex life, Sophocles? Are you still able to enjoy a…"

"So, Socrates, the cause of a person's attitude toward these desires is also the cause of his family's attitude toward…"

"If Polemarchus and I are making a mistake in our investigation it isn't intentional. If we were searching for gold, y…"

"Well, even you must know that cities are governed either as tyrannies, democracies, or aristocracies. Of course, I sa…"

"But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the…"

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

"Tyranny is not a matter of minor theft and violence, but of wholesale plunder, sacred and profane, private or public.…"

"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."

"Consider further - most foolish Socrates - that the just is always a loser in comparison with the unjust. First of al…"

"A few of us old fellows get together now and then, like regular birds of a feather. Most of us sit and cry about the …"