The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act