So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.