Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.