To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.
A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power to learn is present in everyone's soul and...the in...
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.
Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλάNothing beautiful without struggle.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself
It is right to give every man his due.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.