"Any city, however small, is in fact..." - Quote by Plato

“Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.”

“All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.”

“One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.”

“Future generation is the most important thing.”

“Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.”

“It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.”

“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”

“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

“We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.”