Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.