No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

Ideas are the source of all things

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.

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.