Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

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.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.