Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.