The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Hope is a waking dream.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.