Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

The beginning is half of the whole.