May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?.

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit r….

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe..

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger..

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell..

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant..

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul..

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing..

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies..

You cannot conceive the many without the one..

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rat….

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in e….

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil..

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit..

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before..

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

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping..

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men..

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the g….

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clear….

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance..