The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

The god is the beautiful.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.