.. 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.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

God ever geometrizes.