- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness....This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
- The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
- Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
- There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Justice means minding your own business and not meddling in the lives of other men.
- The good ones are those who are content to dream what the wicked actually practice.
- [Glaucon] Make your decision as if we're not listening.
- Justice is treating your friends well and your enemies poorly.
- Are they infallible, these rulers in the cities, or are they capable of making mistakes?
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