"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."

"This is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.,."

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

"Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others."

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

"What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?"

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."