Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I...
He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest go...
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy...
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a lea...
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spi...
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.