Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the chil...
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The good is the beautiful.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Excellent things are rare.
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.