If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.