Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

All knowledge is but remembrance.