The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.