Attention to health is life greatest hindrance..

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the ….

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of….

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it..

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher..

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and c….

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion..

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it i….

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble..

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy..

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed..

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and….

Man was not made for himself alone.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the prom….

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge ….

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt..

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state..

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning..

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his l….

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do….