When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.