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

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.