He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
All that a man hath will he give for his life.
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.
We hanged our harps upon the willows.
Every fool will be meddling.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
He will laugh thee to scorn.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world, or until those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.