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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.