"The true lover of learning, then, must from his earliest youth, as far as possible, be devoted to truth."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophe…"

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."