Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.