Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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.