I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
Those who tell the stories rule society.
The beginning is half of the whole.
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.