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

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.