A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.