Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

The wisest have the most authority.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.