The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'