"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

"The best of either sex should be united with the best as often as possible, and the worst with the worst as seldom as possible; and that the offspring of the former should be reared, and that of the s…"

"The poets, beginning with Homer, are to be banished from the ideal city because they appeal to the emotions and irrational parts of the soul, and distort the truth."

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."