It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.