“Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.”

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not.

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity.

Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.