One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

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.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.