"The tools which would teach men their..." - Quote by Plato

“When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.”

“I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.”

“I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.”

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

“Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”

“The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.”

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”

“Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.”

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”