People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Love: a grave mental disease.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.