Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.