The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

.. 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.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.