Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.
PlatoFor the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
PlatoThe truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.
Plato