When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself..

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them..

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods..

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. .….

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, i….

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other….

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing ….

The god is the beautiful..

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect ….

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief..

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route..

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure..

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort..

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value..

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain..

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body..

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine..

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through….

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers..

The race of the guardians must be kept pure..