Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.