Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.