Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.