There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.