Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

We become just by the practice of just actions.