Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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

No one ever dies an atheist.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.