And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.