For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

A work well begun is half-ended.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.