The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.