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.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

No soul willfully does wrong.