Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.