Man was not made for himself alone
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?