The city of minimal needs meets the basic needs of its citizens: food, shelter, clothing, and shoes.

Some today affirm that all life is good whereas Plato would say that only a good life is good.

Cephalus is afraid of death.

The feverish city must go to war.

Plato’s theory of Forms explains what makes a dog a dog and a cat a cat.

While the original city of minimal must expand its borders, the feverish city of luxuries is self-contained and does not need to expand in size.

Most people love beautiful objects whereas a philosopher loves Beauty itself.

The gods of Homer are always morally good.

In the original city there is no furniture.

When a citizen is willing to die for his country, he or she has put his motherland or fatherland above his own parents.