Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.