Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.