Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
I am smart because I know I nothing.
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.