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.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.