The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.