Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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