That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.