Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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.