... 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.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.