"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them."

"The laws of the State are not made for the good of the individual, but for the good of the whole."

"In Timaeus, Plato quipped that men who were cowardly and unjust in this life would certainly come back as women in the next."

"The unrighteous, if they escape punishment, are not truly blessed, but are the most unfortunate of all."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."