We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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.