The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

No soul willfully does wrong.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.