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.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.