Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Our need will be the real creator.

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.