Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.