The soul of man is immortal and imperishable..

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs;….

No one ever dies an atheist..

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent..

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful..

Knowledge is true opinion..

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union..

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom..

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing..

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money h….

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another..

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose..

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god..

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others..

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well..

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which ….

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the….

Friends should have all things in common..

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another do….

God is not the author of all things, but of good only..

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain..