When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.