Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.