Then the imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature made, nor is his art intended, to please or to affect the rational principle in the soul; but he will prefer the passionate and fitful temper, which is easily imitated? Clearly.

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Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

Nevertheless I must say what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length.

Make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

We ask what is the origin of marriage, and we are told that like the right of property, after many wars and contests, it has gradually arisen out of the selfishness of barbarians.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.