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

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.