“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?”

“Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who areof a certain nature; he who is not, not.”

“The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.”

“those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.”