Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.