There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.