Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.