Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.