Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Authority is no source for Truth.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.