Music is a defining element of character.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.