There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

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

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.