The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.
If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.