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.

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

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

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.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.