For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.