It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.