What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.