Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Man was not made for himself alone

The race of the guardians must be kept pure.