He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.