Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Any peace is better than any war

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

No soul willfully does wrong.