"One should turn towards the main ocean..." - Quote by Plato

“Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.”

“Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.”

“And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.”

“Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.”

“Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”

“Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it.”

“And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”

“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.[Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]”

“Nothing can be produced out of nothing.”