For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.