What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.