Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater mis...
Necessity who is the mother of our invention.
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonet...
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
There is truth in wine and children
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
All learning has an emotional base.
I am smart because I know I nothing.
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.
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...
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
The measure of a man is what he does with power.