"Democracy passes into despotism."

"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."

"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but eternal and there she is at rest, and has escaped from the wanderings and follies of men, and is ever with the gods, as becomes her who is divi…"

"The true lover of learning, then, must from his earliest youth, as far as possible, be devoted to truth."