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

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.