A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.