We must become just be doing just acts.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

People generally despise where they flatter.