The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?