Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!