Society and the World

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The good is the beautiful.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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.

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.

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 promotion of virtue.

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 promotion of virtue.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

We do not learn. And what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.