... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Music is a defining element of character.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.