The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.