For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.