Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love