We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

God ever geometrizes.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.