And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.