The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.