When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

No man should be angry with what is true.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.