Pleasure is the bait of sin

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.