And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.