Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.