A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.