"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."

"And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"Plato is boring."

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doa€|?"

"Who will bell the cat?"

"But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates."

"Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end."

"The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao."

"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

"A joke explained is a joke wasted."