Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.