But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.