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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

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

Any peace is better than any war

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

There is truth in wine and children

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in _x000D_the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to _x000D_know what we do not know.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.