The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

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.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.