"Is it not the excess and greed..." - Quote by Plato

“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”

“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.”

“Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.”

“No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.”

“Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.”

“Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.”

“A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.”

“The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.”

“The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.”