"Behold! human beings living in an underground den… here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move."
"The prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and the journey upwards is the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world."
"Would he not say with Homer, 'Better to be the poor servant of a poor master' than to think as they do and live after their manner?"