Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.