Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.