Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

As the government is, such will be the man.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.