Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.