And he who would attain all virtue should be trained amid pleasures as well as pains.

Hence there should be convivial intercourse among the citizens, and a man's temperance should be tested in his cups, as we test his courage amid dangers.

He should have a fear of the right sort, as well as a courage of the right sort.
At the beginning of the second book the subject of pleasure leads to education, which in the early years of life is wholly a discipline imparted by the means of pleasure and pain.

The discipline of pleasure is implanted chiefly by the practice of the song and the dance.

Of these the forms should be fixed, and not allowed to depend on the fickle breath of the multitude.