That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

Even the gods love jokes.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers