The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Truth is its own reward.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.