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 physician heals, Nature makes well.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

We work to earn our leisure.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.