The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.