The beginning is half of the whole.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.