A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.