... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

God ever geometrizes.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?