We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.