The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
Knowledge is true opinion.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers