Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.