The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.