If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.