The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.