When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye ….

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matte….

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and ….

Democracy passes into despotism..

Love is the pursuit of the whole..

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers..

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being dif….

The beginning is half of the whole..

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensa….

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happe….

You should not honor men more than truth..

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things..

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to r….

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation..

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge..

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know..

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service..

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way..

The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only….

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost..