... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.