To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

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.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.