And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.