Those who tell the stories rule society.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.