Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Talk in order that I may see you.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.