If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.