For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.