To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.