Pleasure is the bait of sin

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.