Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

For good is simple, evil manifold.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.