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

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.