The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, a...
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Life must be lived as play.
Knowledge is true opinion.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power to learn is present in everyone's soul and...the in...