And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.