If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.