Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.