“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.” Republic

To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. Book IV

For in order to command well, we should know how to submit; and he who submits with a good grace will some time become worthy of commanding. On The Laws

“Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.” Republic