Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.