And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.