Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Geometry existed before creation.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.