It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.