Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence….

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's….

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own..

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing w….

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life..

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness….

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character….

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold ….

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them..

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice..

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way..

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases..

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and maste….

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil..

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" b….

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation..

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know..

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger..

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching tha….