Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

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

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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.