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.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

The beginning is half of the whole.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.