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.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

Bad men are full of repentance.