Love is the pursuit of the whole.
As the government is, such will be the man.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .