如果您不愿抚养房屋的屋顶，而是公民的灵魂，您将为国家提供最大的服务：因为伟大的灵魂应该住在小房子里比让卑鄙的奴隶在大房子里潜伏的人更好。
(You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.)