The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

You cannot conceive the many without the one.