And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.