The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.