"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"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…"

"The best of either sex should be united with the best as often as possible, and the worst with the worst as seldom as possible; and that the offspring of the former should be reared, and that of the s…"

"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."