You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

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.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.