Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The wisest have the most authority.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.