No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.