"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily."

"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 worst of all deceptions is self-deception."

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

"In Timaeus, Plato quipped that men who were cowardly and unjust in this life would certainly come back as women in the next."