I have good hope that there is something after death.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.