Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.