The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?